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Here’s what every emoticon really means

 Emoticons are pretty important:

But they don't teach emoticons in school, and some of them are actually hard to understand — at least for some of us.

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Skye Gould/Tech Insider

Below we've listed the actual definitions for all the main emoticons.

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Skye Gould/Tech Insider
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